Eleven tabletop, servingware and smallwares products have been honored with awards in Foodservice Equipment Reports magazine’s 12th annual Smallwares & Tabletop Awards. Five judges—two operators and three dealer specialists—made the final selections during a judging session held Aug. 13 at the Boelter Cos. Superstore in Glendale, Wis.Nearly 50 tabletop and smallwares manufacturers submitted entries for…
R.W. Smith & Co. has appointed Stuart Sharp, the former v.p.-division sales at Carlisle Foodservice Products, as chief operating officer, a new position within the company’s leadership team. Sharp will report to Allan Keck, president and CEO of R.W. Smith. The San Diego dealer reported more than $87 million in sales in 2012, according to…
Alto-Shaam welcomed more than 170 golfers to the fifth annual Jerry Maahs Memorial Golf Outing on August 10. The charitable event, held at Ironwood Golf Course in Sussex, Wis., surpassed previous outings as participants raised a total of $56,000 for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. Alto-Shaam founder Jerry Maahs passed away from lymphoma in 2006. The following…
Kids are heading back to school and the Let’s Move! healthy-eating initiative continues to place salad bars and steamers in the nation’s school cafeterias. Vulcan has tapped school nutrition specialist Mike Burke, CFSP, as K-12 ambassador for its newly launched “Just 4 Schools” program addressing the changing foodservice preparation needs of the K-12 segment; Burke…
The FEDA Education Foundation has awarded 2013 ServSafe Scholarships to John Crow and Nora Ramirez of Ace Mart Restaurant Supply and Tiffanny Forgette, Lindsay Hooton and Cody Riebe of Burkett Restaurant Equipment. More scholarships are available to employees of
I’ve been having conversations about changes in the structure of the equipment and supplies market with a number of leading manufacturers the past few weeks. A clear trend is the impact of consolidation. Now that the Great Recession is mostly over and credit is flowing more or less freely, we’ve seen a wave of mergers…
TriMark Century Concepts has moved to a brand-new location on Jimmy Carter Blvd. in Peachtree Corners, Ga. The new facility features a 60,000-sq.-ft. warehouse and consolidates the company’s Atlanta and Suwanee operations. “The move has more than doubled the capacity of our warehouse operations,” says Scott Bishop, president of the full-service dealer. “We can offer…
We released our forecasts for growth of the foodservice equipment and supplies market last week during FER’s annual President’s Preview E&S Market Forecast meeting, held at the Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Ill. As we wrote a couple weeks ago (see story here), the rest of this year looks stronger than the very weak E&S market…
Summertime and the living is easy? Or is it just hectic? The Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association understands both situations and has extended until Aug. 23 the deadline to return the questionnaire for its Annual Profit Survey. FEDA says the additional time will allow more of its members to get in their paperwork and take advantage…
We’re finishing up the eight PowerPoints we present next week at our annual President’s Preview E&S Market Forecast meeting, being held Aug. 7 at the Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Ill. We thought we’d share a few of the highlights. As far as the general economy in the U.S. is concerned, it’s looking a bit better,…